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Quote by William Godwin
We are so curiously made that one atom put in the wrong place in o

We are so curiously made that one atom put in the wrong place in our original structure will often make us unhappy for life. – William Godwin

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There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness. – William Godwin

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